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Alan Lloyd Assistant Professor Ph.D. |
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Structural Engineering |
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| Research Thesis |
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Alan Lloyd Assistant Professor Ph.D. |
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Structural Engineering |
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| Home | Biography | Research | Students | Teaching | Contact |
| Statics | |||||
| Steel Design I | |||||
| Dynamics | |||||
| Research Thesis |
This course will introduce students to the study of vibrations with
specific focus on structures. Students will learn how to move beyond
working with static equilibrium and now study dynamic equilibrium.
Rather than only being concerned with stiffness, displacement, and load,
students will now learn how mass, damping, velocity, acceleration, and
time all influence the response of systems. The applications of dynamics
for buildings and infrastructure most commonly show up in earthquake
engineering but also include wind, vehicle and pedestrian traffic,
rotating machinery, explosions, impacts, and any other loads that are
variable with time (transient). The course will be mostly theoretical
with some sections related to how dynamics is incorporated in practical
building design. This course is well suited to a student with interests
in structures and mathematics.
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